Tie-plate.



Y No. 336,854. PATENTE) Now/127, 1906k A. BALL' l TI TE.

APPLIGATIOH BPT.1o,19oev.

i suine against lateral spread.

State of North Dakota, have @siren emerse-:PATENT .Prion Y WiLLniM sonner A. BALLQoF er; `rrioiiiis,-Noinii DAKoTA.

rae-PLATE.,

Speccston of Letters Patent. I I

'Patented mv. 27,1999..

Application iiea's'epim'bei 10,1908. einem $33,991.

vplete'adaipted to be used in combination @ith the mil or ye track -or tbe purpose of maintain? ing the sind rails zit e proper distance with re lation rto euch other -and for sec'iuring the in the drawings, Figure 1 is e perspeetive View of the tie-plete. Fig. Z is e iongitudif I n y f ingbetiveentheutie endtiie rails, cushlons in between the strips'and the bases-of nel sectional view'oi the seine.

The plate oomprisestbe intermediate porrovided 'et vits ends with the tion i, which is over tbe ienges oi' shoulders 2 2,*W ieliiit u the opposite rails 3- an terminate against the sides of the seid. redis. The end ,portions 4 `ere botb alike end eecb consists oi e strip of metal 5, wliioh passes under the end of' the intermediate portion l 'sind aise under the reil`3. The seid strip is bent baches-et. 6, over the outer ilenge of tbe mil 3. The seidx bent-bsielrL portion' vbeers against the outer side of the seid rail, as et 7, and lies Het against the top oi tlie'portion 6 end is see. cured to tbe'tie 8 by ineens Yof the'spike 9. The spikes 10 securetiie iinnenends of the strips 5 to the tie 8 and also secure the inter-n mediate portion i to the seid tie vFrom the foregoing vious that the intermediate portion 1, which bears at its ends egeinstthe mnersideso'f; the trec-k-reils 3, kee -s seid rails at properidis'- tance apart; elso-ti under the .rails an the outer sides'o` herails and -hevingfbent portions which overlie et the rail-flanges, prefA vent the seid" rails from s reading; L* The cushion 1L which magybeY y other suitable material, is interposedbetween description itv isbb efend portions. 4, passingr` dbeingy secured to the tie at the bases of tbe reiis 3 end'thefmetell'ic strips,

claim es new, and desire to seure byLetters Patent, is` 'Y A tie'jplgte comprising end.v strips extend-4 terposed 5 of the end portions .4.- y Thus the vseid-1ai1s- .receive the cushioning ecf of the `Isaidleuslithe reils, s itidfstrips being bent beek over the i' ou'fer flanges ofthe-rails end abutting against,

the outer sidesof the reilsend being bent ewey fromtheriiils intermediate portion against secured i `In testimony my own have in the presence `of two witnesses.

WnlLLfnv'i ROBERT A.. BALLv to the tie and said end strips.

that l claim lthe foregoing `Viitnesses:

A. L. MILLEM H. L. KEELER.

hereto aixed my signature eiid secured to the tie, an bearing etits ends the inner sides of thereiis andbemg 

